Eric Fishman, MD speaks with Michael Stearns, President and CEO of e-MDs.  Today, they discuss the past, present and future of e-MDs.

Eric Fishman, MD speaks with Andrew Carricarte, President and CEO of IOS Health Systems about his electronic health record system Medios EHR.  Carricarte discusses how Medios EHR is different from other solutions.  In addition, he speaks about roadblocks that physicians face while implementing an EHR and how they can overcome these issues.

Rebecca Wiedmeyer, President and Independent Contractor of Vela Consulting Group, discusses with Eric Fishman, MD an EHR implementation. Wiedmeyer takes us through each of the necessary phases before going live with an EHR solution.

Evan Steele, CEO of SRSsoft speaks with Eric Fishman, MD about the rapid expansion of SRSsoft.  Steele further discusses how SRS is different from other EMR solutions. For more information about SRSsoft, visit:http://srssoft.com/

Tom M. Gomez ~
Today we talk with Tom M. Gomez who is an entrepreneur for Digital Media, eHealth & Medical Devices. He is also founder & CEO of BrainShield Technologies, Inc.

Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc
Director Clinical Informatics Research & Development,

Chairman, Center for Information Technology Leadership,
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Steve Aylward, General Manager for Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft® discusses with EHRtv™ the future of Microsoft. Microsoft understands that the healthcare industry needs to make drastic improvements in sharing electronic medical records (EMR) across environments. Therefore, Microsoft believes that they are able to contribute.

HIMSS09 – Tee Green, President – Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.

Greenway’s flagship software solution is PrimeSuite 2008, is an integrated electronic medical record (EMR), practice management (PM) and interoperability solution that is certified by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT®) based on 08 Ambulatory EHR (electronic health record) certification requirements, including certification for cardiovascular medicine and child health. With over 1,800 customer sights nationally, 4,600 physician users in over 30 medical specialties and subspecialties, Greenway is a leader in health information technology (HIT). Specialty specific content within PrimeSuite 2008 EMR includes: Allergy, Cardiology, ENT, Family Medicine, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Plastic Surgery, Rheumatology, and more.

Michael Tranchina Interviews John Giobbi, CEO of Proxense
Designing TruProx Devices for convenience in Healthcare and Retail

A True proximity-based censor network, and a suite of applications that run on top of that. By having the network being a single unit, allows for all the applications to share its underlining technologies and feature set which lowers the cost for each of the modules. It gives us alot of flexibility as to what the modules can do.

Mark Lynn is an attorney with a practice in Miami, Florida. He specializes in business transactions and assists physicians in negotiating contracts with EHR Vendors.

Topics covered:

1. What are the most important issues that you address when you represent a physician group that is purchasing an EHR?
2. Do the recent changes in the Stark and HIPAA laws have any impact on the vendor agreements?
3. In your experience, do the vendor contracts adequately address connectivity issues? For example, whether the EHR is compatible with the local Health Information Exchange?

Dr. Michael Stearns, President of e-MDs, sits down with Dr. Eric Fishman to discuss a variety of issues. e-MDs has grown to over 19,000 users and expects continued growth due to its powerful functionality and the recent HITECH Act. Stearns addresses some of the features the e-MDs solutions offer, such as a patient portal, and the fact that it has won a variety of honors from various medical societies.

Joni Picukaric speaks about the industry at Jupiter Medical Center

The Hawaii Independent Physician’s Association has been helping Physicians to go paperless, but many are hesitant due to initial investment hurdles and implementation anxieties. This film shows some of Hawaii’s early adopters and documents their experience with electronic medical records. Please contact www.hipadocs.com.

Glen Tullman, Chairman and CEO of Allscripts, is interviewed on CNBC. Talks about teaming up with Microsoft and allowing patients to access their  personal medical records online. Please contact allscripts.com.

Glen Tullman, Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Chief Executive Officer, is interviewed by the Wall Street Journal’s Vanessa Fuhrmans about what needs to happen to get physicians on-board with using healthcare information technology. Please contact allscripts.com.